TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Rozgar Mela 2. Election Commissioner 3. India - Cambodia 4. Global Partnership on AI (GPAI) 5. World Fisheries Day 6. International Committee for Weight and Measures (CIPM) 7. CITES Cop-19
1. Rozgar Mela
Syllabus: GS2, Governance, Govt Schemes
Prelims: Rozgar Mela
Context:
Under Rozgar Mela, PM to distribute about 71,000 appointment letters to newly inducted recruits.
Know more about Rozgar Mela in PIB dated 22nd Oct 2022.
Syllabus: GS2, Polity
Prelims: Election Commission
Context:
Shri Arun Goel takes over as the new Election Commissioner.
Details:
- Shri Arun Goel, an IAS officer of the Punjab cadre (1985) assumed charge as the new Election Commissioner (EC) of India, taking over from Shri Rajiv Kumar.
Read more about the Election Commission of India in the linked article.
Syllabus: GS2, IR
Mains: Developments in India – Cambodia relations
Context:
Defence Minister’s visit to Cambodia.
Details:
- Defence Minister Shri Rajnath Singh arrived in Cambodia to co-chair the maiden India-ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting and to attend the 9th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM Plus).
- He also held a bilateral meeting with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence of Cambodia.
- India and Cambodia are celebrating 70 years of diplomatic relations and also, 30 years of India – ASEAN relations in 2022.
Also read: Sansad TV Perspective: ASEAN-India Summit
4. Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)
Syllabus: GS-3; Science and Technology
Prelims: Global Partnership on AI (GPAI)
Mains: Significance of India taking over as Council Chair of Global Partnership on AI (GPAI)
Context:
India took over as Council Chair of Global Partnership on AI (GPAI).
Details:
- GPAI is an international initiative to support responsible and human-centric development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
- India took over the chair from the outgoing Council Chair France virtually at the GPAI meeting held in Tokyo.
- India has put in place the National Programme on AI and a National Data Governance Framework Policy (NDGFP).
- The NDGFP aims to ensure equitable access to non-personal data and focus on improving the institutional framework for government data sharing, promoting principles around privacy and security by design, and encouraging the use of anonymization tools.
- It also aims to standardise the government’s data collection and management.
- The NDGFP along with the envisaged Indian Data Management Office (IDMO) is expected to catalyse the next Gen AI and Data-led research and startup ecosystem.
- AI is expected to add USD $967 Bn to the Indian economy by 2035 and USD 450–500 billion to India’s GDP by 2025, accounting for 10% of the country’s USD 5 trillion GDP target.
About Global Partnership on AI (GPAI):
- India joined the GPAI in 2020 as a founding member of the 25-member congregation.
- It is a first-of-its-type initiative for evolving a better understanding of challenges and opportunities around AI.
- It works in collaboration with partners and international organisations, leading experts from industry, civil society, governments, and academia to collaborate to promote the responsible evolution of AI and guide the responsible development and use of AI, grounded in human rights, inclusion, diversity, innovation, and economic growth.
Syllabus: GS-3; Economy; economics of animal-rearing.
Prelims: About World Fisheries Day
Context:
Department of Fisheries celebrated World Fisheries Day.
About World Fisheries Day:
- World Fisheries Day is celebrated on 21st November every year to demonstrate solidarity with all fisher folk, fish farmers and other stakeholders throughout the world.
- It started in 1997 when “World Forum of Fish Harvesters & Fish Workers” met in New Delhi leading to the formation of the “World Fisheries Forum” with representatives from 18 countries and signed a declaration advocating for a global mandate of sustainable fishing practices and policies.
- The event aims to draw attention to overfishing, habitat destruction and other serious threats to the sustainability of our marine and freshwater resources.
- The celebrations serve to focus on changing the way the world manages global fisheries to ensure sustainable stocks and healthy ecosystems.
6. International Committee for Weight and Measures (CIPM)
Syllabus: GS2; IR; Important International institutions – their structure and mandate.
Prelims: International Committee for Weight and Measures (CIPM)
Context:
Prof. Venu Gopal Achanta elected as a Member of the International Committee for Weight and Measures (CIPM).
Details:
- Prof Achanta is the Director of CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), New Delhi.
- He is the seventh Indian to hold this position.
- CIPM is the supreme international committee responsible for the development and implementation of Weights and Measures globally.
- It functions under the authority of the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM), the highest intergovernmental international organisation created as a diplomatic treaty called the Meter Convention signed in 1875 in Paris.
- It is responsible for the development and implementation of International Systems of Unites, universally abbreviated as SI, and its wide dissemination; making necessary modifications from time to time for the advancement of science and technology.
- India became a member in 1957.
7. CITES Cop-19
Syllabus: GS3, Environment, Conservation
Prelims: CITES
Context:
The 19th meeting of the Conference of Parties to Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of wild fauna and flora (CITES) is being held in Panama in November 2022.
Background:
- In the 17th COP to CITES held in Johannesburg in 2016, all species of the genus Dalbergia were included in Appendix II of CITES, which required parties to follow trade regulations for the species.
- In India, the species Dalbergia sissoo (North Indian Rosewood or Shisham) is found in abundance and is not treated as an endangered species.
- Even though it was acknowledged in the meeting that the species Dalbergia sissoo is not threatened, because of difficulties in differentiating between the various species of Dalbergia in the finished products, the entire genus was included in Appendix II until technology could be advanced which would enable the differentiation of the species.
- As per the restriction, every consignment of weight above 10 kg requires a CITES permit. Due to this restriction exports of furniture and handicrafts made of Dalbergia sissoo from India have been continuously falling
New development:
- On India’s initiative, a proposal to clarify the quantity of Shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) items such as furniture and artefacts was considered in the current meeting.
- After sustained deliberations by Indian representatives, it was agreed upon that any number of Dalbergia sissoo timber-based items can be exported as a single consignment in a shipment without CITES permits if the weight of each individual item of this consignment is less than 10 kg.
- Further, it was agreed that for the net weight of each item only timber will be considered and any other item used in the product like metal, etc. will be ignored.
- This is a great relief for the Indian artisans and furniture industry.
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